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T. W. MOORE.

GAR PLATFORM.'

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No. 381,022. :Patented Apr. '110. 1888 UNITED STATES THoMAs w. Moonn PATENT?- GSFFICE.

or PLnINFELD, lnew JERSEY, AssIGNoa To 'rHoMAs w.v Moons, Je., or sAME PLACE. i n

' CAR-PLATFORM. f

spncrrfrcArIoN forming part of Leners Patent No.' sarozaastea Apri; 10,1888. V

i Application/tiled January 30. i888. SJerial'NolQMlS. y(No model.) X l I To aZZ whom it may concern: Y y

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. MOORE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Plain# ield, in the county ofUuion andState of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulA Improvements in Entrance and'Exit Ways forr PassengerCars; and I do declare the following to be ai'ull, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the saine, reference being'had to the accom-- panyiug drawings, and t0 the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon, which form apart of this specication. n

The object of my invention is to provide practicable separate entrance and exit ways fer elevated and other rapid-transit passenger cars of city trahie where large numbers of passengers enter and leave through the ends of the cars at frequentstopping-places, so thatvthe present delay of those wishing to enter by having first to wait the leaving of the others through a single passage may be avoided; and

it'consists of the contrivance for such separate ways without extension of the platforms be# yond the present length, which is only long enough for. one passage,;as hereinafter fully t described, reference being made to the accom*- crowded city places there is much confusionv onv arrival of the cars at the station-platforms by those outside rushing for the only-passage-y way at the same time those inside 'are trying to pass out through the same way, causing at many stations much loss of time, during which little or no progress is made by either party,

besides the delay which one party must incur by waiting Vfor the other.

To provide forfseparate entrance and exit f ways by making larger platforms is objectionable for various reasons, vamong which the longer station-platforms that would be necessary, especially for elevated roads, is impor'-V tant, and such remedy would not be available yfor cars at present in use.- v I have-therefore contrived for such separate passages'w'i'th `car .platforms of the usual length for one-,passage and inside of the end wall, 11', through which passengers may find exit,w hile others may enter through the usual passage, c, over the platform`5but to avoid making the doorway inthe Y by kthedoor a in the side of the car nextto side of the carI will in some cases make the e 6cv second passage over the end ofgthe platform,

andan extensible yrack which may be provided to compensate for .thev lack of length at'the f i corners of the platform,due tothe curved form f necessary for turning short curves" by the 1 closely-coupled'cars,with a dividing-rail, Z, to separate the two passages, said rail beingibent suitably at f and connected with andiv/idingf post, g, locatedat the middle of the doorway u *h iu the end of the car, which will for this pur? "pose bey made a littleiwider than *ther usual doorway. The rack is in this ,case vmadejextensible by its main bars j being jointedto the middle of the end of the platform Yat t', and'hav.- ing itsplateral bars c'extending into grooves or ways Z in theplatform under the top plate,

allowing the corners ofthe platforms to approach and recede from leach other' as 'they vary in turning curves.

The racks extend the ywhole breadth of the car-platforms for use alike on each.side,ac 8o 'l 4 cording as the station-platforms may be, and the confronting racks of the. coupled Ycars will probably sufficiently control each other as kto their positions independently of the variations of the platforms by the curves of the road; but

.they may be coupled together at one or '.both` of their outer corners for, this purpose, 1f de-vv sired. Y. The racks may 'arranged -in any other `approved contriva'nce suitable for thus extending the platform-cor ners without interfering with the running of the cars around curves,.and the 'main barsj will have any suitable guard-railing, m, and suitable gates'will be providedfor bothpassages.

ofcoursebe constructedand 'Y Y The dividing-rail Z" is in this example representedas adapted to turn on its bearingjat n, so as to be shifted over to the'k other side ,whenV theA passages are to be opened that way, the

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outer end of said rail being supportedon either side in the notched upper end of a postfo; but, if desired, said dividing-rail may be made in two parts, each being' pivoted in one of said posts at o, one to be let down and connected at n,while the other is setupright over its supporting-post and .retainedinanyapproved way. It will be seen that with this improvement more than half the time now requisite for exchange of passengers will be saved, because with the instruction to keep to the right once learned and kept in mind by the public both sides may go their way immediately on the stopping of the cars without the obstruction of the rst attempts of both sides to pass, and also without the waiting of one for the other.

Ido not,ofcourse,limit myselfas to thelength of the car-platforms, as they may be made long,

enough to have the two passages separated by the dividing-rail without the extensible rack.

I am aware that a single passage having a branch to cach side of the car has been proposed; but this only amounts to a single passage to and from whichever .side the stationplatform may be, and is not practically different from the common arrangement, whereof the single passage turns to right or left over the carplatform, according as the stationplatformis on one side or the other. My invention is essentially different in that it provides entirely separate and independent simultaneous ingress and egress from and to the station-platform, whichever side of the car it may be through which the entering and leaving passengers may pass at the same time,and thus greatly shorten the delay therefor.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The improvement in construction of passenger cars which consists of entrance and exit passages separately arranged side by side at the ends of the cars and at each side thereof, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The improvement in construction of passenger cars which consists of an extensible platform and dividing-rail providing entrance and exit passages side by side over the platform,said extensible platform being contractile to allow the turning of the cars on curves, substantially as described.-

3. The improvement in construction of passengercars which consists of separate entrance and exit passages over the platform divided by the guard-railextending from the middle of the doorway and changeable for dividing thepassages to either side of the car, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS W. MOORE.

Witnesses:

' WM. J. MORGAN,

A. P. THAYER. 

